Who am I (2)

I graduated from Hawaii Pacific University (HPU) with double majors, Computers and Human Resource at the young age of 23 in 1999. The plan was to complete double masters MIS and MBA, and triple degree, IT, HR, and Psychology. Why Psychology? Well, because I love social experiment, muahahahaha. Ok, so how the hell did double masters and triple degree gets cut down to single degree with double major? Extremely bad timing.

Way back in 1994 when I finished high school and planning what to do in the future, the Asian financial atmosphere was pretty bullish. Interest rates were high: you have 11% savings account interest vs 7%-8% loans. So I decided hey, I can take a twinning program here and the choose an affordable and accredited university overseas. I spent 2 years at Rima College, and then in 1996 I transferred to HPU.

First year was fun! Money was plentiful, I met people, experienced things, did stuff, learned a lot. Every quarter my dad transferred sums that although doesn't enable me to live in opulence, it allows me to live relatively well of. Then 1997 arrived and the shit hits the fan. Funds dried up to a trickle; everything came crashing around me. From middle of '97 the money that was transferred decreased. End of 97 till mid '98 the exchange rate of RM2.40 to a dollar ballooned to RM4.80 to a dollar! Goddamned financial crisis, Soros for trying to "capitalize" by speculating, and Mahathir for not making the country's economic dealings transparent enough. The damage was done by local banks being greedy schmucks; Soros only comes into the picture later ok Mr Ex Prime Minister? Why the hell were you trying to divert blame to some outsider guy? You have a stake in some of the banks or something and trying to unload your stake while it is still profitable?

On hindsight, I should've have asked my dad to transfer the whole 4 years amount budgeted for my studies back in 1996, and put a quarter in 1 years FD, a quarter in 2 years FD, and another quarter in 3 years FD, and the last quarter in 4 years FD. Que sera sera.

Before the crisis I was getting 10k per quarter, now I am only getting 5k. Tuition fees, books, etc cost 4k per quarter. WTF? I get to spend only 1k per quarter? Before the crisis, I budgeted and saved well enough that I can afford to buy and return ticket home to spend the summer at home. Now all I can afford is eating instant noodles once a day to stay here and study! (Back then I calculated how much to spend and on what to spend that money on. Yeah it was that bad, 1 pack of instant noodle per day.) Around this time I was considering giving up, going back home, and become a farmer. But then I thought to myself, I'm here, halfway done, I hate doing things halfway because thats not how I roll.

I'm the kind of guy who plays the same game 3 - 4 times in a row, or read the same book 3 - 4 times, and thus misleading other people to perceive me as never finishing anything. In fact, what they saw was me playing a game the third time halfway and tossing it away for a new game that just came out just to finish it multiple times, play halfway the fourth, and the tossing it for yet another game. Yeah I'm the kind of guy who likes to do things multiple times unless shit happens.

So there I was, at the crossroad of my life. I decided to salvage whatever I could, ditched the extra courses for master, and focused on getting a degree as best as I could. To supplement my meager finances, I decided to do odd jobs here and there, anything to make ends meet. I worked in a shoe store, became a librarian, worked as clerk, worked in a pizza shop, oil distribution center, and some places that is degrading which I will never ever talk about. I did things no man should. They will haunt me forever.

It was also at this time I discovered how cheap fast food really was. Prior to the financial crisis, I have been going to Chinatown to eat rice or noodle. They cost from $5 to $9 flat. During the crisis, I found out that fast food at different days cost much, much less. Burger King Whoppers normally cost $3.99, but on Mondays they only cost $1.99! McDonalds cheeseburgers normally cost $0.99, but on Tuesdays they only cost $0.49! Jack in the Box Chicken burger normally cost $1.99, but on Wednesdays they are as low as $0.99! Food problem solved! From Monday to Friday, I have a schedule for fast food to cut cost. Chinatown? Only on the weekends.

Before the crisis I was an active sportsman; I played tennis, basketball, badminton, I jog, rode bicycles, played pool, darts, swim, etc. I weighed 160 pounds or so and I'm 5'7'', so my body mass index or height weight ratio is quite good. After I found out about fast food, I gained 100 pounds within 2 years. I shit you not my friends, fast food is bad for you.

During the whole time I was rampaging, fueled with rebellious rage. I walked around in a T-Shirt that says 'Fuck You'. After a while the anger subsided. I accepted my fate of becoming second best, instead of becoming all that I can be. So I toughed it out, and got my degree in 1999. Then came back to KL and started working. But the pain and the bitterness is still there at the back of my mind. There's some demon loose in my soul, and sometimes they grab me and won't let go. When this happen, the best advice I can give you is run and don't turn back.

So what lesson do I have for you from all this? Never, ever plan. Politicians have plans, economist have plans, traders have plans. Planners are schemers attempting to pathetically control the world. Look where it got us Mr Ex President. Me? I had plans. I was a schemer. Look where it got me ha ha ha.

I don't have a plan. Do I look like a man with a plan nowadays? I'm like a dog chasing cars. Wouldn't know what I'd do if I ever caught one. Nowadays, I just do things. You ever heard of Zen or Tao? Nowadays I live my life that way. By just being myself.

Multiple domains for one website?

Not all tactics regarding Search Engine Optimization (SEO) guarantee success. The basic ones like title tag, meta keywords and headers to name just a few may or may not affect your site's ranking. Some tactics though at first blush may seem like a good idea.

Multiple domains for one website though is a very, very bad idea. Why?

1. It depicts you as a schmuck who hoards domain names and asking people to pay gadzillions when they wants to buy them later.
2. Nobody likes lazy ass with duplicate content on different websites.
3. Your pagerank, visitor count, and AdSense revenue goes down because of #1 and #2 above.

So there, don't make multiple domains that points back to the same page.

Next time you have an Eureka! moment, consider stepping back and think thoroughly about the whole thing, lest you get a surprise in the form of an Ig Nobel Prize.

WHO AM I?

From time to time I will pepper this blog with some faqs about me. Who am I really? Well just some overweight bloke trying to make his way in the world. What are my worldview? I'm a realist. What the hell is that you ask? Well, it is the way of looking at the world for what it is - dirty, smelly, ugly, and crappy. You think your neighbours likes you? Hell, they must have gossiped stuff about you whole day long. If the shit hits the fan, they will rather save themselves first rather; it's all about looking out for number one. When people gets a chance to stab you in the back with a dagger, they will do it - assuming they can get away with it of course.

A whole bunch of people are realist. Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Thomas Hobbes are some of them.

The best game to play for realist are zero sum games. Imagine this scenario:
the world is going to end tomorrow and two realist guys are supposed to cooperate to save it. However, if one of they betrays the other, he can travel to another world with infinite wealth and health. You can be sure that one of the fuckers will stab the other fucker and destroy us all!

Just like one of my partners stabbing me in the back and then calling me lazy bum while I contributed all money and half of the work! Fucking assholes!

Realist Altruism

Ahhhh, altruism. The gift that allows man to empathise with the plight of his fellow man. This gift is divided into two conflicting category; realistic altruism and idealistic altruism. Unfortunately, most men tend to lean towards the latter category. Now why is that a bad thing?

Scenario 1 - idealistic altruism
A drunk guy pleads with a well to do guy for a few dollars to buy lunch. The well to do guy, being an idealistic altruist, gives the drunkard 5 dollars, in which the bloody drunk then proceeded to buy a bottle of Jim Beam and thus getting himself wasted.

scenario 2 - realistic altruism
A drunk guy pleads with a starving artist for money to buy lunch. The starving artist berates and humiliates the bloody drunk so much that he stops drinking, attended AA meetings and works diligently to become a pillar of human society.

I would of come up with more examples but I need to go out and beat up some drunks now who owes me 20 bucks. Cya later.

Gamers Dude

I hate emo gamers. Goddamned them all to hell. You know who you are.

Counter-Strike
I haven't played this game in a while. Mainly this is caused by various schmucks who think they are pro as well as dicks who likes to yell a lot.
Schmucks "har har har nubz u r pwned by me with bombs only hahahaha nubz!"
Dicks "I carry 300 gadzillion blind grenades and throw them at my team mates for lolz har har har"
Dumbass "How to stun in this game? Where is the secret shop?"

Defense Of The Ancients
I still play this game on Garena sometimes. There are a whole bunch of people on that server. Public games will make you weep, laugh, shit yourself, and makes you greener than Bruce Banner after playing for a while... all at the same time.
Big E-penis guy "fuck stun lah the guy, what you doing you fucking noob!"
Tiny E-penis guy "sorry I r noobz... first blood I leaver..."
Hackerz "I WTFBQPWNEDROFLOL ur stupid ass with stun of 30 gadzillion damage! I r teh pros!!!""

I R getting teh heart attack! Blood Boiling! Anger Rising! Aaahh, chocolate icecream.
Maybe I should start playing mmorpg now.

After the havoc that I'm gonna wreak,
No more words the critic shall ever speak.

Robert Kiyosaki Is Fucking Faker

Yes. The author of Rich Dad and Poor Dad is a fucking faker. Why?

1. He gives dangerous advice like "If you're gonna go broke, go broke big".
My friend went broke big after reading his book. Now he owes the bank 20k and has to work his ass off it.

2. He said his net worth is $50-$100 million depending on the day; his Rich Dad Poor Dad coauthor (some bitch called Sharon Lechter, not related to Hannibal Lecter) said in court that he only made $9 million.
We all know he got his $9 million from selling his super-expensive non educational boardgame to schmucks and his book of lies that promotes his stupid boardgame to dicks.

3. He never told us who Rich Dad really is... after 20++ years! After 20++ years of claiming the book is based on true story, he suddenly claims that "certain events in this book have been fictionalized for educational content and impact,” in the fine print on the copyright page of Rich Kid Poor Kid. WTFBBQPWNEDROFLOL!!!1111one
Hey I just wrote a book that teaches you how to fly like Superman! But certain events in that book have been fictionalized for educational content and impact. Yeah, the kind of impact when your head hits the ground after jumping from the 20th floor!

4. He is affiliated with Amway-Quixstar;a kind of multi-level marketing organization.
DAMN!!! He sold his soul to the Devil!

5. This is the route the faker took to become a financial genius (taken from John T Reed site):

• flunked sophomore year of high school and had to repeat
• U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
• 3rd mate oil tanker (or was it “Love Boat” type cruise ship as he said in one of his books?)
• Marine helicopter pilot (or was it fighters?)
• refused to return to ship when it was ordered to return to combat (or just missed the boat)
• Xerox salesman
• failed businessman (nylon surfer wallets)
• failed businessman (rock and roll memorabilia)
• failed author (1993 book If You Want to Be Rich & Happy, Don’t Go To School?)
• failed MBA applicant
• homeless person
• bankruptcy (or maybe not)

Wait a minute... I thought he learned his stuff from his "Rich Dad" when he was 9 years old? Why the hell did he become a financial failure 3 times after learning his shit from his "Rich Dad"????

Ok, I need to stop now. Venting about this fucking faker is giving me heart attack. Oooh, my chest.

New Home

New home for my old blogspot. Yeah, the old one went kaput. Now I have to start all over again. DAMN!

Oh well, hopefully this one will last longer than the last one. Now, onwards with the show!

Tis the time to be jolly,
To poke fun at Nick, Sam, and Holly,
Though none shall I reap,
Neither fame nor glory,
Only cusses and evil eye for me,
But true my to path,
For I am no phony.